Section 1 Executive Summary - Town of Yucca Valley

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1. Executive Summary • Avoid continual reconsideration of recurring policy issues; • Consider broad policy alternatives and programmatic mitigation measures at an early stage when the agency has greater flexibility to deal with them; • Reduce paperwork by encouraging the reuse of data (through tiering). 1.3 PROJECT LOCATION The Town of Yucca Valley is near the southern boundary of the central portion of San Bernardino County, approximately 30 miles (driving distance) north of downtown Palm Springs in neighboring Riverside County (see Figure ES-1, Regional Location). The Town is surrounded by portions of unincorporated San Bernardino County and is near the City of Twentynine Palms and the unincorporated communities of Morongo Valley and Joshua Tree. The southern boundary of Yucca Valley is adjacent to Joshua Tree National Park. State Route 62 (SR-62) traverses the Town from east to west, and SR-247 crosses the northern half of the Town from north to south. The Town’s sphere of influence (SOI) has the same boundaries as the Town (see Figure ES-2, Townwide Aerial). These boundaries are generally the same as those established in the current General Plan, adopted in 1995, except for a one-square-mile area on the northern edge of the Town that was annexed in 1996. The Town of Yucca Valley encompasses approximately 25,000 acres (or 39 square miles). The vast majority of Town land is either single-family land uses (24.0 percent) or vacant (65.4 percent) (see Figure ES-3, Existing Land Use). This is due to the Town’s low density residential character and isolated, high desert location. With a few exceptions, existing commercial and industrial uses are generally within ½ mile of the SR-62 corridor and concentrated in the Old Town and Mid-Town areas. Yucca Valley does not contain any major water bodies. The Town’s abundant vacant land generally consists of undeveloped desert saltbrush scrub, Joshua tree woodland, and pinyon-juniper woodland. The majority of roadways in the less developed portions of the Town are unimproved (i.e., dirt roads). 1.4 PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed project is an update to the Town of Yucca Valley General Plan. The Yucca Valley General Plan Update is intended to shape development within the Town for at least the next 20 years and involves reorganization of the current General Plan into the following elements: Land Use, Circulation, Safety, Noise, Open Space and Conservation, and Housing. The General Plan Update will also revise the General Plan land use map, as shown in Figure ES-4, Proposed Land Use Plan. Table ES-1 outlines the proposed land use designations and summarizes the acreage and total percentage of each land use designation. Buildout of the Yucca Valley General Plan Update would result in a projected population of 64,565, 27,229 residential units, 20,963,702 square feet of nonresidential development, and 34,926 employees in the Town. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15064(d), this DEIR considers the direct physical changes and reasonably foreseeable indirect physical changes in the environment that would be caused by the General Plan Update. Consequently, this DEIR focuses on impacts from changes to land use associated with buildout of the proposed land use plan and impacts from the resultant population and employment growth in the Town. Page 1-4 • The Planning Center|DC&E August 2013
1. Executive Summary Table ES-1 Proposed General Plan Land Use Designations Land Use Designation Acres 1 % of Total Units 2 Population 3 Total Square Feet 2 Employment 4 Residential Hillside Residential (HR) 4,017 15.8% 201 477 - - Rural Living 10 (RL-10) 79 0.3% 8 19 - - Rural Living 5 (RL-5) 4,842 19.0% 968 2,300 - - Rural Residential 2.5 (RR-2.5) 4,915 19.3% 1,809 4,295 - - Rural Residential 1 (RR-1) 1,802 7.1% 1,795 4,263 - - Rural Residential 0.5 (RR-0.5) 3,332 13.1% 6,600 15,675 - - Low Density Residential (LDR) 1,453 5.7% 5,077 12,058 - - Medium Density Residential (MDR) 248 1.0% 1,478 3,510 - - Medium High Density Residential (MHDR) 326 1.3% 3,260 7,743 - - Subtotal 21,015 82.4% 21,196 50,341 - - Commercial, Mixed Use, and Industrial Commercial (C) 5 491 1.9% 1,679 3,987 6,011,947 10,889 Mixed Use (MU) 6,7 238 0.9% 922 2,087 4,099,513 7,318 Industrial (I) 8 752 2.9% 10 23 7,099,111 10,142 Subtotal 1,481 5.8% 2,611 6,097 17,210,572 28,349 Westside Special Policy Area (WSPA) 9 Residential 625 2.5% 2,229 5,294 - - Commercial 42 0.2% 77 183 346,141 636 Industrial 47 0.2% - - 506,385 723 Open Space Recreation 99 0.4% - - - - Public/Quasi-Public 4 0.0% - - - - ROW 170 0.7% - - - - Subtotal 986 3.9% 2,306 5,477 852,526 1,359 Yucca Valley General Plan Update Draft EIR Town of Yucca Valley • Page 1-5
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